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Public BSOD Sightings?

Sanksa Wott asks: "My travels over the weekend brought me to a very popular fast food restaurant, where, in the drive-through I was greeted with, what else... a blue screen! Since BSOD's can show up almost anywhere, I thought I would ask: 'What has your funniest/most interesting/noteworthy/etc. encounter with public displays of the BSOD been like?' Note: This isn't meant to be a troll, so lets be nice ;)"

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  1. I had to rip out NAV... by devphil · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    ...because the damn thing kept popping up windows at random times, complaining that it hadn't been able to connect to the internet to get its updates.

    Except that every place I could find a choice, I had told it to /not/ do automatic updating, to let me handle it manually. Because the machine in question was a laptop, rarely connected to anything, and when it is, I typically need /all/ the bandwidth.

    I even walked through the registry by hand. I could not find whatever setting it was using to ignore me and keep trying to go out on the net, resulting in these fucking popups right when I'm trying to demonstrate some code or read a tech document.

    Fuck it, I said, and uninstalled the whole damn thing. I don't care how important a piece of software /thinks/ it is, it does what I fucking tell it to do or it goes.

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    You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)